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Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

Christoph Kreutzmüller and Jonathan R. Zatlin, Editors
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This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussions, the subject has not received much scholarly attention until now. This volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts. The essays examine the confiscatory taxation of Jewish property, the looting of art and confiscation of gold, the role of German freight forwarders in property theft, salesmen and dispossession in the retail world, theft from the elderly, and the complicity of the banking industry, as well as the reach of the practice beyond German borders.
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Possession and Dispossession
  • I. Dispossession on a Macroeconomic Scale
    • 1. A Jew-Free Marketplace: The Ideologies and Economics of Thievery
    • 2. Fiscal Destruction: Confiscatory Taxation of Jewish Property and Income in Nazi Germany
    • 3. The “Legal” Theft of Jewish Assets: The German Gold Discount Bank (Dego)
  • II. Dispossession by Sector
    • 4. Jewish-owned Shoe Shops, Company Representatives, and the Daily Business of Dispossession
    • 5. Taking Advantage: German Freight Forwarders and Property Theft
    • 6. Banking on Emigration: Reconsidering the Warburg Bank’s Late Surrender, Schacht’s Protective Hand, and Other Myths about Jewish Banks in the “Third Reich”
  • III. Dispossession during the War
    • 7. The Ruse of Retirement: Eichmann, the Heimeinkaufsverträge and the Dispossession of the Elderly
    • 8. Identifying “Jewish Assets” in France
    • 9. Contested Dispossession: The Netherlands
    • 10. Administered Plundering: Dispossession and Corruption in the Concentration Camp System
  • IV. Dispossession and Restitution
    • 11. Restitution, Memory, and Denial: Assessing the Legacy of Dispossession in Postwar Germany
    • 12. The Costs and Limits of Making Good
    • 13. Art Dealers and Their Networks in Nazi Germany and Beyond
    • 14. Dark Facets of “Appropriation”: Grave Robbery at a Nazi Extermination Camp in Poland
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
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Published: 2020
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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  • 978-0-472-12693-4 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-13203-4 (hardcover)
Series
  • Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany
Subject
  • German Studies
  • History:European History
  • Jewish Studies

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A postcard showing a photograph of a street view of Place Grenette, Grenoble. The street is mostly empty except for a trolley and several bicyclists. The street is lined with buildings four to five stories tall.

Postcard, A La Providence

From Chapter 8

Place Grenette, Grenoble city-center, in the mid-1930s. Several “Jewish shops” stood there, such as L’innovation, in the center of the image, and Chaussures André, partially visible on the far right. (Postcard, author’s personal collection.)

A postcard showing a photograph of the storefront for A La Providence with a crowd in front. Along the edges of the postcard are the telephone number, store name, owner, and address.

Postcard, Place Grenette

From Chapter 8

The shop La Providence in the mid-1920s, owned by the Troujman family, one of the leading families in the small Jewish community of Grenoble. (Postcard, author’s personal collection.)

A postcard showing a photograph of the street view of Place Grenette, Grenoble. The angle of the photograph is aimed slightly upwards. Mountains are visible in the distance, beyond the buildings lining the street.

Postcard, A L'Innovation

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The shop La Providence in the mid-1920s, owned by the Troujman family, one of the leading families in the small Jewish community of Grenoble. (Postcard, author’s personal collection.)

A vandalized shop with an antisemitic slur on its window and a message on the sidewalk indicating that the shop is closed.

Photo of a Vandalized Shop Called "De Ooievaar"

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Photo by an unknown photographer of the baby stroller shop The Stork (De Ooievaar) in Amsterdam. The inscription on the ground, “Closed. We have gone to England,” suggests it was taken in 1940. (NIOD, Beeldbank WO2, 185785.)

A broken window pane of a children’s furniture shop.

Photo of a Vandalized Shop Called "Gebr. Polak"

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Photo by the German press agency Stapf of the broken window pane of the children’s furniture shop Gebr. Polak in Jodenbreestraat, Amsterdam, 11 February 1941. (NIOD, Beeldbank WO2, 158027.)

A gold filigree ring with inset gemstones.

Ring from Bełżec

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The ring from Bełżec. (Courtesy Museum–Memorial Site at Bełżec.)

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